Re: [PATCH] cleanup ptrace stops and remove notify_parent

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 09:55:30PM -0700, Roland McGrath wrote:
> > Unless it's been changed since I last pulled, you should also fix up
> > has_stopped_jobs.  I think it's broken by the introduction of
> > TASK_TRACED.
> 
> Actually, I don't think it was broken at all.  It has an old kludge to
> avoid considering trace-stopped threads as stopped for purposes of deciding
> to generate signals for an orphaned process group.  I think that the useful
> thing is for it not to consider any TASK_TRACED thread as stopped here either.
> That's what it will already do, and the old kludge can go now:

[The kludge isn't all that old.  I added it about a year and a half
ago.]

You're right.  I misread the loop.  It's still only an approximation,
in that we don't know what the debugger's intention towards resuming
the program is, but I think we err on the correct side now.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
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